> On 1/25/2010 6:23 PM, Simon Breden wrote:
> > By mixing randomly purchased drives of unknown
> quality, people are
> > taking unnecessary chances. But often, they refuse
> to see that,
> > thinking that all drives are the same and they will
> all fail one day
> > anyway...
My use of the word
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:34:29PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Google is working heavily with the philosophy that things WILL fail, so
> they plan for it, and have enough redundance to survive it -- and then
> save lots of money by not paying for premium components. I like that
> appro
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:34 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> Google is working heavily with the philosophy that things WILL fail, so they
> plan for it, and have enough redundance to survive it -- and then save lots
> of money by not paying for premium components. I like that approach.
Yes, it d
On 1/27/2010 7:29 AM, Simon Breden wrote:
And cables are here:
http://supermicro.com/products/accessories/index.cfm
http://64.174.237.178/products/accessories/index.cfm (DNS failed so I gave IP
address version too)
Then select 'cables' from the list. From the cables listed, search for 'IPASS
to
On 1/25/2010 6:23 PM, Simon Breden wrote:
By mixing randomly purchased drives of unknown quality, people are
taking unnecessary chances. But often, they refuse to see that,
thinking that all drives are the same and they will all fail one day
anyway...
I would say, though, that buying differen
If you choose the AOC-USAS-L8i controller route, don't worry too much about the
exotic looking nature of these SAS/SATA controllers. These controllers drive
SAS drives and also SATA drives. As you will be using SATA drives, you'll just
get cables that plug into the card. The card has 2 ports. Yo
I use a Sil3132 based card. It's a 2 port PCI-e 1x supported by OpenSolaris
2009.06 and latest Solaris 10 natively. It's cheap ($25) support SATA 2.
I use it to boot my boot disk.
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> Certainly there is a simpler option; although I don't
> think anybody
> actually suggested a "good" 2-port SATA card for
> Solaris. Do you have
> one in mind? Pci-e, I've even got an x16 slot free
> (and slower ones).
> (I haven't pulled the trigger on the order yet.)
Hi, you could always ge
On 1/26/2010 9:39 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:32:05PM -0800, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Okay, so this SuperMicro AOC-USAS-L8i is an "SAS" card? I've never
done SAS; is it essentially a controller as flexible as SCSI that
then talks to SATA disks out the back?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:32:05PM -0800, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Okay, so this SuperMicro AOC-USAS-L8i is an "SAS" card? I've never
> done SAS; is it essentially a controller as flexible as SCSI that
> then talks to SATA disks out the back?
Yes, or SAS disks.
> Amazon seems to be the only
Okay, so this SuperMicro AOC-USAS-L8i is an "SAS" card? I've never done SAS;
is it essentially a controller as flexible as SCSI that then talks to SATA
disks out the back?
Amazon seems to be the only obvious place to buy it (Newegg and Tiger Direct
have nothing).
And do I understand that
> I got over the reluctance to do drive replacements in
> larger batches
> quite some time ago (well before there was zfs),
> though I can
> certainly sympathise.
Yep, it's not so much of a big deal. One has to think a moment to see what is
needed, check out any possible gotchas in order to carry
On 01/25/10 04:50 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
What's it cost to run a drive for a year again? Maybe I really should
just replace one existing pool with larger drives and let it go at that,
rather than running two more drives.
It seems to vary nowadays, but it seems the fewer the RPMs and
the
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 04:08:04PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> > - Don't be afraid to dike out the optical drive, either for case
> >space or available ports. [..]
> >[..] Put the drive in an external USB case if you want,
> >or leave it in the case connected via a USB bridge in
> Well, they'll be in a space designated as a drive
> bay, so it should have
> some airflow. I'll certainly check.
Yes, it's certainly worth checking.
> It's an OCZ Core II, I believe. I've got an Intel -M
> waiting to replace
> it when I can find time (probably when I install
> Windows 7).
AF
On Mon, January 25, 2010 15:44, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>
> Some other points and recommendations to consider:
>
> - Since you have the bays, get the controller to drive them,
>regardless. They will have many uses, some of which below.
>A 4-port controller would allow you enough ports for
On Mon, January 25, 2010 15:26, Simon Breden wrote:
>> I've got at least one available 5.25" bay. I hadn't
>> considered 2.5" HDs;
>> that's a tempting way to get the physical space I
>> need.
>
> Yes, it is an interesting option. But remember about any necessary cooling
> if moving them from a c
Some other points and recommendations to consider:
- Since you have the bays, get the controller to drive them,
regardless. They will have many uses, some of which below.
A 4-port controller would allow you enough ports for both the two
empty hotswap bays, plus the dual 2.5" carrier.
> I've got at least one available 5.25" bay. I hadn't
> considered 2.5" HDs;
> that's a tempting way to get the physical space I
> need.
Yes, it is an interesting option. But remember about any necessary cooling if
moving them from a currently cooled area. As I used SSDs this turned out to be
i
On Mon, January 25, 2010 14:11, Simon Breden wrote:
>> I've given some though to booting from a thumb drive
>> instead of disks.
>> That would free up two SATA ports AND two hot-swap
>> disk bays, which would
>> be nice. And by simply keeping an image of the thumb
>> drive contents, I
>> could r
> One of those EIDE ports is running the optical drive,
> so I don't actually
> have two free ports there even if I replaced the two
> boot drives with IDE
> drives.
Yep, as I expected.
> I've given some though to booting from a thumb drive
> instead of disks.
> That would free up two SATA ports
On Mon, January 25, 2010 13:11, Simon Breden wrote:
> I have the same motherboard and have been through this upgrade
> head-scratching before with my system, so hopefully I can give some useful
> tips.
Great! Thanks.
> First of all, unless the situation has changed, forget trying to get the
>
Hi David,
I have the same motherboard and have been through this upgrade head-scratching
before with my system, so hopefully I can give some useful tips.
First of all, unless the situation has changed, forget trying to get the extra
2 SATA devices on the motherboard to work, as last time I look
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